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...calendar slouches toward the big triple zero, the prudent citizen reviews options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
...folkie set--punk-folk rocker Ani DiFranco and pop-folk star Jewel have opened his shows. One wonders: Does he stand in the wings and watch these young women perform? What does he feel as he sees his son Jakob, of the folk-rock band the Wallflowers, ascend the charts? Does he see where he has been or where...
...opportunity this summer to visit the Heidelberg Project and found myself standing in the middle of the street in awe of the beauty before me. The thousands of used shoes (soles) represent all the lost souls in Purgatory hoping for mankind's prayers to help them ascend to heaven. Guyton's polka-dot theme is seen everywhere, sending the message "I don't care what race you are, if you are black or white or even polka dot, God's love sees no colors." JUDITH ZABAWSKI Sterling Heights, Mich...
...teachings of their charismatic leaders, Applewhite and Nettles, who claimed to be extraterrestrial representatives of the "Kingdom Level Above Human," the cult members believed their bodies were mere vessels. By renouncing sex, drugs, alcohol, their birth names and all relationships with family and friends, disciples could become ready to ascend to space, shedding their "containers," or bodies, and entering God's Kingdom. "If you cling to this life, will you not lose it?" Do asks in the Heaven's Gate manifesto...
With a mixture of paranoia and passion, the teachings rail against Judaism and Christianity and complain of oppression by nonbelievers, evil "Luciferians," whom they say will be "plowed under" in the apocalypse. Only those vessels prepared to receive the word will be fortunate enough to ascend when the time comes. Indeed, while the group may have given outsiders an impression of Christianity, their version of Jesus was most certainly heterodox. Two thousand years ago, the Kingdom Level Above Human appointed a representative to preach the Kingdom of God to earthlings. This being inhabited the container called Jesus (also known...